Omega faculty Valerie Mason-John

Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John

Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John is an award-winning author and editor of 10 books, including Eight Step Recovery Using the Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction and Detox Your Heart: Meditations for Emotional Trauma. They are a public speaker and master trainer in the field of mindfulness and conflict transformation, ordained in the Triratna Buddhist Community and have received the Manay-ki rites.

Dr. Mason-John was featured at TEDxRenfrewCollingwood, where they gave a talk entitled “We Are What We Think,” which outlined a course of action we can take to work on the global epidemic of bullying. They integrate their Afrikan wisdom with mindfulness and shamanism to bring about healing to the soul.